Austin Kleon

That's taking what I'm doing is I'm making something analog, uploading it digitally, and then people make it analog again and they have it in their space.

which is actually what's happening with the books.

I'm taking all these notes and all this stuff and arranging it.

We do all the editing and all the designing and stuff, and then it comes out as this analog project.

It's a fancy zine is basically how I think about it.

But it's that interplay of digital and analog that I think is actually the most interesting.

Like if my life was totally analog, it's like, you know, whatever.

But it's like that interplay between digital and analog because everyone's talking about AI right now and stuff.

And I was like, you know, 20 years ago, I made the decision that putting the human hand in the work, making it clear that my work is done by a human being, it stood out 20 years ago, right?

it's going to keep standing out.

You know what I mean?

Because people want that.

They want the imperfection.

They want the sense that a human being made stuff.

They want the sense of the hand and the stuff.

And so, you know, people say, are you really worried about AI?

I'm like, well, I'm,

worried about AI because I grew up in the nineties watching the Terminator and the Matrix and every other Hollywood movie that told us that this is a bad idea.

Like, I don't know what the rest of you were doing 30 years ago, but like, you know, I was raised on these movies, you know, so I'm worried about it from a world perspective, but not necessarily for what I do.

Cause I already do something that's kind of old fashioned, you know, so not that worried about